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|  | | VMLY&R has announced the launch of the Proud Pronoun Project, an online platform where individuals have the option to select their personal gender pronouns and produce a beautiful illustration to display as Teams or Zoom backgrounds...read |
|  | | Dove recently launched the 'Reverse Selfie' film which represents how far retouching apps can distort reality...read |
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| |  | ISSUED BY FACEBOOK This month's Marketing Masterminds are Danny Pinch, executive creative director of digital at the King James Group, and Jean Scheltema, head of marketing and communications at Wesgro. They discuss the 'One Day in Cape Town and the Western Cape' campaign... Read |
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| |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE This year on 16 June, we commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising. #YouthMatters is our celebration of youth who are making a difference in various sectors... Read |  | EMILY STANDER Ashton Muller, the co-founder and co-manager of Goliath Gaming, shares insights into how the multi gaming organisations functions... Read |  | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Raees Carim was just 20 years old when he created PharmaGo, a mobile app that facilitates same-day and next-day deliveries of essential and over-the-counter medications to customers in need... Read |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE With a passion for the media industry, Kati Dijane has worked in the industry for a decade. She's worked in various roles as a journalist, editorial assistant, digital editor, deputy managing editor and sub-editor. She's now the founding editor of KDanielles Media... Read |  | RUTH COOPER Faced with the need to be self-reliant, 25-year-old Biochemistry and Microbiology graduate Nombuso Nomzamo Khanyile founded Afrikan Passion Designs, a sustainable handmade leather accessory brand... Read |  | RUTH COOPER Twenty-two-year-old Courtney Hodgon chats about founding Kiffkak - a tongue-in-cheek, proudly South African apparel and product range - at such a young age, winning a Loerie and her advice for aspiring creatives... Read |  | CAROL BRANDT The mining industry has a pivotal role to play in solving the longstanding issue of youth unemployment in South Africa, which was made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns... Read |  | With 74% of Africans now aged under 35, the youth are powerful agents of change... Read |
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| |  | JESSICA TENNANT As part of our ongoing #BehindtheBrandManager series, we interviewed some of the Marketing Achievement Awards' Rising Star finalists. First up, Bianca de Beer... Read |  | JESSICA TENNANT Not a brand manager per se, but a well-known photographer and branded content creator who has made a name for himself in the social media sphere. Shawn Ogulu was recently announced as the brand ambassador for Tamron SA... Read |  | JESSICA TENNANT As part of our ongoing #BehindtheBrandManager series, we interviewed the Marketing Achievement Awards' Rising Star finalists. Next up, Itumeleng Matlare... Read |
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 | PAULA SARTINI Document creation and management have a big impact on the day-to-day life of a knowledge worker and subsequently on a company... Read |
| Advertising |
 | ISSUED BY HOWARD AUDIO Getting a mention from the Creative Awards always means a lot - and this month to get a mention in both the Film and Radio categories makes us very proud at Howard Audio... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BRAVE GROUP Brave Group has appointed Zamani Ngubane as its new creative director. Zamani joins a formidable creative team spearheaded by executive creative director Vanessa Pearson... Read |
 | EMILY STANDER I had the privilege of chatting to Kagiso Tshepe, the newly appointed executive creative director (ECD) at Grid Worldwide... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY Doing a Slider into number one spot; About time the Advertising Regulatory Board is reined in by the High Court in Joburg... Read |
| Branding |
 | MICHELLE CAVE, ISSUED BY BRANDFUNDI The Friends Reunion has a lot of people talking. The show was broadcast on Sunday, 30 May 2021, 17 years after the series ended, and I'm amongst those who felt it was somewhat random... Read |
 | PAT MAHLANGU African brands are not getting enough love from home and we need to resolve this.... Read |
 | DUANE NICOL If you're a marketer or brand owner in 2021, it's not enough to protect your brands and trademarks in real life. You have to build a fort around your online assets too... Read |
 | BARRY LOUZADA Any big brands who are not partnering with e-sports and gaming companies for marketing and exposure may want to reconsider... Read |
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 | FNB has launched a new brand communication campaign, #TheChangeables, to celebrate South Africans who take challenges in their stride... Read |
| Cannes Lions |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Cannes Lions and its official representative in South Africa, Ster-Kinekor recently announced this year's jury. With only one month to go until two years' worth of Lion-winning work is awarded, we touched base with some of the local jury members for a preview of what to expect. Next up, Fran Luckin... Read |
| Covid-19 |
 | ED FEIL The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced a new naming system for the coronavirus that uses Greek letters to refer to the different variants... Read |
| CRM, CX, UX |
 | KELVIN BROWN, ISSUED BY TELVIVA As organisations around the world come to terms with the biggest disruption in living memory, the fundamentals of a successful business remain intact, and one of the most important of these pillars is relationships... Read |
 | ALAN YATES Alan Yates, customer excellence lead at Roche Diagnostics, discusses the current customer landscape in terms of providing products and services to resellers... Read |
 | In 2020, the global Covid-19 pandemic necessitated a significant - and lasting - shift in consumer behaviour from the interpersonal to online... Read |
| Design |
 | ISSUED BY LEARNING CURVE Built to help your business stand out, Adobe Creative Cloud for teams gives you the world's best creative apps and services in a single, secure, integrated platform... Read |
 | Clout SA launches this June with a mission to promote South Africa's creativity, craftsmanship and heritage, and create opportunities for collaboration between designers and makers... Read |
| Digital |
 | FRANCOIS KRIEL, ISSUED BY KRIEL & CO Nearly 20 years on, while the world was on a trajectory towards fulfilling a real-life Minority Report, the plot twisted in favour of data privacy protection... Read |
 | HERMAN DEGENER 2022 marks the year where Google will sunset the third-party cookie... Read |
 | EDWARD HERRIDGE For thousands of years the wild sciences were the playground of mystics, mages and heretics... Read |
| Direct Marketing |
 | ISSUED BY DMASA The Direct Marketing Association of SA (DMASA) says there are more than enough reasons for local marketers to enter the country's premier integrated marketing awards... Read |
| Events & Conferencing |
 | TANYA DAVIS, ISSUED BY EAST COAST RADIO To event or not to event? That is the question organisers are faced with as the world moves towards a post-pandemic recovery... Read |
 | ISSUED BY IMC CONFERENCE Themed "Marketing. The Movie", Nedbank IMC is bringing together some of the biggest local and international A-list marketing stars, including Marcel Marcondes... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BRAND SOUTH AFRICA Brand South Africa will be hosting a webinar on Tuesday, 8 June 2021 to unpack the 2021 World Bank Ease of Doing Business Index... Read |
 | The One Club for Creativity announces AMV BBDO London has received high honors in The One Show 2021 with six Best of Discipline wins... Read |
 | The One Club for Creativity and The 3% Movement have opened the call for entries for their jointly run Next Creative Leaders 2021... Read |
 | The International News Media Association (INMA) has unveiled winners in its 2021 Global Media Awards competition... Read |
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 | Egg Films has boosted its leadership firepower with director Zwelethu Radebe and director and Arcade co-owner Lebogang Rasethaba joining long-standing colleague, executive producer Colin Howard... Read |
 | The 42nd Durban International Festival (DIFF) will take place from 22 July - 1 August 2021 and will focus on a film programme that focuses on narratives that will speak hope for tomorrow. Read |
| Magazines |
 | Mikateko Media is the new owner and publisher of The Afropolitan. The agency takes over an established, well-run brand from Contact Media & Communications who successfully launched and ran the platform for just over 12 years... Read |
| Marketing |
 | ISSUED BY WAVEMAKER Wavemaker South Africa is delighted to announce the appointment of its new managing director, Merissa Himraj... Read |
 | ISSUED BY OGILVY SOUTH AFRICA Cadbury Dairy Milk recently launched the Cadbury Read to Succeed initiative, with the aim to help address and contribute towards improving literacy in the country amongst our next generation... Read |
 | ISSUED BY FOREVER RESORTS SOUTH AFRICA Forever Resorts South Africa is delighted to announce the appointment of Eugene van Jaarsveldt succeeding Kobus Tait, who is retiring from his position as the company's managing director... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DOTGOOD [Dot]Good MD and founder Michael Baretta outlines the benefits of cause marketing... Read |
 | JOHAN WALTERS, ANSA LEIGHTON & NIAMH NICLIAM Johan Walters, Ansa Leighton and Niamh NicLiam at Incubeta, provide a guide to digital marketing transformation... Read |
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 | A new Juniper Research report has found that iPhones will bring in over $200bn in 2022; nearly 40% of the total smartphone hardware market... Read |
| Newspapers |
 | ISSUED BY SPARK MEDIA According to Tracy Schloesser, business unit head at Spark Media, there aren't many things that can get into a South African home anymore... Read |
| One Show Awards |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE A brief exclusive with Xolisa Dyshana in the run-up to his presence as a panellist at next week's One Show "Creative Week 2021 Global Media Talks"... Read |
 | The One Club for Creativity has announced Best of Discipline winners for the ADC 100th Annual Awards... Read |
| OOH |
 | ISSUED BY TRACTOR OUTDOOR Tractor Outdoor has just concluded signage rights with Sasol Forecourts, expanding its nationwide outdoor footprint through an additional 100 digital screens... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TRACTOR OUTDOOR Busanitextiles is one of 20 companies that will each receive a package which includes outdoor advertising across Tractor's out of home media network... Read |
| PR & Communications |
 | ISSUED BY APO GROUP APO Group recently announced the appointment of Lynne Krawchuk as vice president of digital, PR and media relations... Read |
 | ISSUED BY IRVINE PARTNERS Irvine Partners public relations and integrated marketing agency has been awarded the Cheapflights communications account in South Africa... Read |
 | ISSUED BY CLOCKWORK Clockwork took home a total of four awards across various categories for Netflix's Blood & Water at the 2021 Prism Awards... Read |
 | MIRANDA LUSIBA As the old-school generation of PR professionals, we were taught that we needed to be patient with the process of learning on the job. That we needed to make sure that our foundation was solid... Read |
 | The programme, which forms part of the recent 'Tourism Road To Recovery Plan', adopted by national government and the tourism sector... Read |
 | The advent of social media technology has made it easy for brands to be attacked and trend for all the wrong reasons... Read |
| Publishing |
 | BRONWYN WILLIAMS Over the past few weeks Bronwyn Williams has been reading Iraq + 100, stories from a century after the invasion... Read |
 | DESIREE LEWIS AND GABEBA BADEROON In the third decade of the new millennium readers have far more access than before to publications by writers from the global South... Read |
| Radio |
 | ISSUED BY UNITED STATIONS United Stations has been appointed with immediate effect, as the exclusive national sales partner for Mix 93.8 FM, Johannesburg's favourite soundtrack of its most treasured hits, huge tunes and big personalities... Read |
 | Fabrik, developed by South African company immedia, is being used by the Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation to bring audiences into the digital and social revolution... Read |
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 | The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) is launching a global census of the marketing and advertising industry, designed to provide hard data on the people who are working in the profession... Read |
 | BRETT ROGERS When Colin Mkhosi was tired of commercial non-delivery in Langa, his solution was to make an opportunity out of it... Read |
| Retail |
 | ANUPAM PAHUJA The pandemic has changed the way we live, work, socialise and transact, says PayPal's Anupam Pahuja... Read |
 | NAOMI BRAITHWAITE From sportswear and street style to catwalk fashion, sneakers have made their mark as cultural commodities... Read |
| TV |
 | Well-loved South African actress Shaleen Surtie Richards has died at the age of 66... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE This week I chat to Mogorosi Mashilo, founder and strategic director at TrendER, a 100% Black-owned market research and ad agency... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Idris Bello, founding partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, is a proud member of the Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance... Read |
 | MUSA MUTALI The government of The Gambia recently announced that the country had eliminated trachoma... Read |
 | Google has kicked off a series of programmes that will support the growth and recovery of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Africa's post-Covid economy... Read |
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 | LOUISE KOTZE Since the advent of Covid-19 and remote working, employees have borne the brunt of operational costs associated with places of employment, which are normally paid for by employers... Read |
 | JOHANNES MASITENG Wesgro has partnered with FinFind to develop a Fund Matchmaking Portal aimed at making access to finance for startups and SMMEs easier... Read |
 | MAISON SAMUELS Chatbots have been created to streamline customer engagement. However, given the quantity of personal information which a chatbot may acquire, how do you ensure that your chatbot is PoPIA compliant...? Read |
 | JAMES STENT & MARY-ANNE GONTSANA "It is always hectic in the trauma ward, but what happened during the peak of the pandemic will always stick with me ... We kept getting patients who were already dead"... Read |
 | Eskom CEO, Andre de Ruyter has been cleared of allegations of racism and non-compliance with procurement and recruitment policies by an independent investigation... Read |
 | ROBBIE KEARNS The pandemic has underlined the importance of strong digital channels, particularly for business-to-business buyers who aren't used to doing business online... Read |
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 | Student Village have been youth specialists for 20+ years. We connect brands with youth and youth with brands. Our services include youth insights, digital & brand activations and bursary services. |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Lusimadio Simao is currently running a business accelerator where he is the founder and the CEO of Entrepreneurs Network and Business Advancement (Entrepreneurs NBA). This Youth Month, we find out more from the ambitious entrepreneur... Read |
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